Millions of tenants are at risk of being evicted, and states and cities tasked with providing emergency rental assistance are unlikely to arrive in time, after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a national ban on most landlords. evictions Thursday night.
Landlords, with the exception of those in a handful of states and cities that have their own restrictions, will be able to go to court and get evictions for unpaid rent.
In most courts, eviction cases that judges have delayed for many months and can now begin to move forward. In others, approved evictions and in the hands of marshals and sheriffs are ready to be executed. In states like Texas, some judges allowed evictions to continue, despite the ban.
Only about 11 percent of the $ 47 billion rental assistance program created by Congress to help tenants and landlords and prevent evictions has been distributed, the U.S. Treasury Department said this week.
In a letter written on Friday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and other senior officials called on state and local leaders to do a better job by distributing aid by simplifying the application process.